In his proposal, Sequoyah is moved to the 9th District. Farragut I, Concord North and Dante East moves to the 6th District. Westview, Pellissippi Tec and Huff moves to the 1st District. Fountain City moves to the 2nd District. Powell moves to the 7th District. Heiskell moves to the 8th District. A.L. Lotts moves to the 4th.

Thanks, Lisa. Actually, Frank Leuthold is speaking to the Halls Business and Professional Association on Tuesday, May 19th, at noon at the Halls Senior Center. Lunch is $10 and the meeting is open to the public. Come out and join us! If you have any questions, feel free to email me at scott@scottfrith.com

Commissioner Briggs has assured the Town of Farragut they will not be split.

How he knows that is unclear. At least twice Commissioner Briggs has violated the Sunshine Law but for some reason the KNS never reported it or took legal action. How does he have such confidence on this? Inquiring minds want to know.

Commissioner Briggs wrote a guest editorial to the KNS endorsing Charter Amendment 3 and 4. Now he is frantically doing damage control hoping people will forget his guest editorial.

What the people in Sequoyah Hills need to know is that IF Commissioner Briggs is successful in his lobbying effort to keep his 5th District voters happy they most surely will be in the 9th District. Say hello to Paul Pinkston and Mike Brown Sequoyah Hills voters.

The bottom line is this was very stupid. People were asked if they wanted to end nepotism, not if they wanted to be forced into a new voting District. Now only a court case can stop this. You might want to contribute.

Now we get to watch an uncivil war of each District trying to protect themselves at the expense of other Districts.

Thanks KCP. Was this the change you kept harping about? Pissing off nearly everyone is change.

Won't it be such fun to watch Sequoyah Hills fight to keep from being in the 9th? But then that will screw up the 1st District. And so on and so on.

And the lawyers just laugh themselves silly over drinks and prime rib at Regas.

Frank is well respected in the redistricting game, but there are serious flaws in his plan. As a leader of the anti-amendment faction, it's almost as if he's trying to make the worst redistricting plan possible.

Splitting Farragut into 2 districts makes nobody happy -- especially when you could as easily slice off the eastern end of District 5 (Cedar Bluff area). Frank's plan dumps Lumpy's Powell home into District 7 with R. Larry. It puts Heiskell into District 8 with Carter High School.
It sends Sequoyah to District 9 (south Knox) and colors District 2 ever so Republican blue. -- s.

Frank Leuthold has been a leader in the redistricting process for over 30 years. He has institutional knowledge of the constitutional requirements and restrictions that are involved in this process.
There may be other available options or plans but to imply that Frank has "gamed" the redistricting is disrespectful.

As a leader of the anti-amendment faction, it's almost as if he's trying to make the worst redistricting plan possible.

It is almost like you're taking a really cheap shot at one of the best public servants this county has ever had.

How would you gerrymander this mess? What is brutal is the math. There is nothing wrong with Frank's plan. Any plan will have cruel realities. Charter Amendment 3 was a stupid idea carried forth by people who didn't think through the unintended consequences.

Blaming this on Frank as some kind of delusional payback is silly. You know better.

Now, everyone can't forget that we will get a redistricting do-over in 2011 after all the new census data is available. So, the redistricting they propose now, will not necessarily be what we end up with.

I'm a longtime Frank Leuthold fan, having known him since the first time I covered Commission in 1987, but Clark and Rachel are right. Most everybody's got an agenda, including me, Frank and Elaine Davis, and if you think that he's never cut a deal in his long political career, I'd like to interest you in some swampland in Arizona. He's an honorable guy, but he's also an experienced pol. Political concerns are always a part of every redistricting.
Frank was the face of the anti-charter amendment movement. His son would like to be trustee. Word has gone out among insiders that sitting commissioners who are running for reelection (there aren't that many of them, relatively speaking) will be "protected." I guess those who will have to run against each other (Lumpy and Brad Anders) will have to fend for themselves.
It would have been better for someone else to draw the new districts. It's guaranteed to piss a lot of people off, whichever way the lines are drawn, and having someone who is perceived to have no axe to grind draw the lines would cut down on some of the outrage. Maybe.

Did you read Frank Leuthold's plan Bean? You might want to before you cast clever little aspersions that don't hold water.

We will see desperate "progressive" redistricting plans to keep Farragut and Sequoyah Hills out of bad places. Don't day the "R" word. Don't do it. Don't say "redneck". Because if the people in Farragut and Sequoyah Hills want special treatment to stay "pure" this will be a war. The little people won't stand for it.

Happy shiny progressives will claim they serve the greater good. There will be a plan for those people. You can count on it. But at what cost? More lawsuits?

It would have been better for someone else to draw the new districts.

Yeah right.

Does Brad Hill have a Ph.d? Or maybe Greg Mackay? Or Gary Drinnen? Any of those people actually have any experience, training, or knowledge on creating voting districts? Any of them actually drawn voting districts THREE times before?

No wait, Tom McAdams, he's your man. He knows everything. At least he claims to. Who cares if he knows zip about the subject? Maybe you need an interpretation from Mr. McAdams?

Word is Big Jim is nervous. His grasp on power may be slipping. Word is the "r" word's are talking privately. They want a little revolution. The Greg Mackay issue and the redistricting issue have united the "r's" in a way not seen before in a long time.

This just in from National Rinographic.

RINO's are so cute when they are babies. Such little pranksters. Aw, he has an overbite. What a cutie.